Hopkins out as coach at Washington after season

Tom Brady was still in the game, still throwing passes, in the fourth quarter of a game the Patriots dominated throughout today. Belichick said today that he doesn’t care if everyone thinks he should have pulled Brady, Belichick believes that teams should continue trying to score as long as the game has any conceivable chance of getting close again. Look, we’ve seen Peyton Manning come back from down 21 points in four minutes and win.

Roger Federer has admitted that he thinks Serena Williams “went too farâ€� during her controversial row with umpire Carlos Ramos during the US Open women’s final. Williams accused the umpire of being a “thiefâ€� and a “liarâ€� in the third set of her eventual defeat to Naomi Osaka in New York, which overshadowed the 20-year-old Japanese star’s maiden Grand Slam victory. Federer, who has stuck to the middle path on such matters in the past, admitted that the 23-time Grand Slam champion overstepped the mark.

For all of the money he’s made as an NFL player — just over $50M to date — Washington cornerback Josh Norman refuses to be defined solely by his profession.